Author Archives: Payton Guion, staff writer

CHARLOTTE – Local developers Allen Tate Jr. and John Crosland Jr. are joining Nashville, Tenn.-based hotel developer Chartwell Hospitality to bring a hotel with up to 300 rooms to Sharon Road, according to a news release from the companies. The ...

CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte metropolitan area added 2,900 construction jobs between March 2013 and March 2014, more than half of the total North Carolina increase, according to a news release from the Associated General Contractors of America. The metro area, ...

CONCORD – With the Winter Olympics long gone and the FIFA World Cup still on the distant horizon, people in North Carolina needed something to quench their thirst for competition. Last month they got just that with the N.C. Department ...

CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to extend for six months a fee-in-lieu program that allows developers to pay the city instead of installing stormwater mitigation measures on redevelopment sites. The post construction controls ordinance, ...

CHARLOTTE – BBVA Compass, a bank based in Birmingham, Ala., has plans to move into an office in Uptown, at 330 S. Tryon St., according to a news release from the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. The company’s new office will ...

CHARLOTTE – While the Charlotte neighborhoods of NoDa, Plaza Midwood and South End often get most of the attention as the city’s trendiest neighborhoods, an Uptown neighborhood was the only one to make a Niche Ink list of the top ...

A report from the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute says that North Carolina, historically a state of small towns, is becoming increasingly urban. Since 2010, Mecklenburg and Wake counties, home to Charlotte and Raleigh, respectively, have grown by about 145,000 people, ...

CHARLOTTE – Central Piedmont Community College’s Cato Campus, off W.T. Harris Boulevard in northeast Charlotte, is easily the most cramped of the school’s eight campuses. CPCC spokesman Jeff Lowrance said the North Carolina standard for academic space per person is ...

CHARLOTTE – For the better part of the last decade, the southwest intersection of Carmel and Colony roads has been a source of ire for some residents of the adjacent Giverny neighborhood. A developer rezoned 7.6 acres of the 9.1-acre ...

CHARLOTTE – For the past two and a half years, developers have had the option to pay a fee to the city to avoid installing stormwater mitigation on redevelopment sites across the city. This alternative was available to developers through ...